Industrial Robot: Volume 39 Issue 3
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The international journal of robotics research and applicationCategory:
Mechanical and Materials EngineeringTable Of Contents - Special Issue: Mobile Robots
Unmanned vehicle show makes a capital appearance
Richard BlossThe purpose of this paper is to review the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Conference and Show held in Washington DC, with emphasis on…
Robots at the International Robot Exhibition 2011 in Tokyo
Yoshihiro KusudaThe purpose of this paper is to review the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) in Tokyo, Japan 2011, with emphasis on the new trend of the Japanese robot industry.
Compact climbing robot rolling on flexible magnetic rollers, for generator inspection with the rotor still installed
Wolfgang Fischer, Gilles Caprari, Roland Siegwart, Roland MoserThe purpose of this paper is to describe the design and prototype implementation of a compact climbing robot with magnetic adhesion, which is only 8 mm high and allows for…
Laser scan matching for self‐localization of a walking robot in man‐made environments
Piotr SkrzypczynskiThe purpose of this paper is to describe a novel application of the well‐established 2D laser scan‐matching technique for self‐localization of a walking robot. The…
Intelligent systems for industrial robotics: application in logistic field
Ting Wang, Dominik M. Ramik, Christophe Sabourin, Kurosh MadaniDifferent machines are already present in the human environment, easing human beings' daily life. In the future, this tendency will be accentuated by integration of…
Neural networks‐based adaptive robust control of crawler‐type mobile manipulators using sliding mode approach
Yaonan Wang, Xiru WuThe purpose of this paper is to present the radial basis function (RBF) networks‐based adaptive robust control for an omni‐directional wheeled mobile manipulator in the…
An autonomous restaurant service robot with high positioning accuracy
Qingxiao Yu, Can Yuan, Z. Fu, Yanzheng ZhaoRecently, service robots have been widely used in various fields. The purpose of this paper is to design a restaurant service robot which could be applicable to provide…
Obstacle‐responsive navigation scheme of a wheeled mobile robot based on look‐ahead control
Yu Yu Lwin, Yoshio YamamotoThe purpose of this paper is to design a mobile robot controller which is able to pursue a given goal with obstacle‐avoiding capability in which the two tasks, i.e. aiming…
High‐level robot programming based on CAD: dealing with unpredictable environments
Pedro Neto, Nuno Mendes, Ricardo Araújo, J. Norberto Pires, A. Paulo MoreiraThe purpose of this paper is to present a CAD‐based human‐robot interface that allows non‐expert users to teach a robot in a manner similar to that used by human beings to…
Direct kinematic analysis of a heavy‐payload forging manipulator in the grasping stage
Chu Xiaobing, Gao Feng, Ge HaoThe purpose of this paper is to present the direct kinematic analysis of a heavy‐payload forging manipulator. In the grasping stage, the manipulator is equivalent to a…
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- Dr Clive Loughlin